New Candlelight season; other schedule news

The Candlelight Dinner Playhouse in Johnstown, flush off its first commercial and critical hit, “Phantom,” has announced an upcoming schedule of Broadway family musicals that would indicate it plans to hang around for quite some time.

After “Clue, The Musical” wraps March 7, this will be the bill of fare:

The show WILL go on: Thaddeus Phillips will soon return, as promised, to present part 2 of his “Mircroworld(s)” invention at Buntport Theater. But because of scheduling conflicts, he’ll only be able to perform “The Undiscovered Country” from March 11-14. Part 1 was set almost entirely in a transformative white box roughly the size of an MRI machine representing a living unit in a recycling housing unit in Tokyo. 717 Lipan St., 720-946-1388 or buntport.com …

Film & theater critic Lisa Kennedy likes to watch -- a lot. She also has a fondness for no-man’s lands, contested territories and Venn Diagrams. She believes the best place to live is usually on the border between two vibrant neighborhoods. Where better to apply this penchant for overlap and divergence than covering film and theater – two arts that owe so much to each other yet offer radically idiosyncratic pleasures? In another life, Kennedy was an Obie judge. In this one, she’s been a Pulitzer Prize judge in criticism, an Independent Spirit Award jurist and Colorado’s first member of the National Society of Film Critics.

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